Rotor is the most flexible module I've ever used for its purpose, but can we see thumbnails or seperate image uploads replacing tabs in the future?

Galleria seems to lead the way with this, but it's nowhere near as flexible as the Rotor style in Views.

I may be mistaken though, so is there a way to achieve this effect already?

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mrfelton commented
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Rotor is a simple module for a simple purpose. I don't plan on implementing this. If you want this feature, perhaps you should check out with http://drupal.org/project/ddblock

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edgibson commented

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mrfelton commented

not sure!

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g10tto commented

thanks for the reference!

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g10tto commented
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herveh commented

I used the ddblock module, the least i can say is that it's a really confusing module,
Rotor banner integrated with views is indeed much more flexible.
About the specific thumbnail problem, I managed to add thumbnails to my tabs by embedding a view in the theme_rotor_tab() function:
First create a view that load your image from your content type,
then add in the argument panel: Node : nid with hide view if argument not present and basic validation.
Add you image as field.
Change line 357 in rotor.module:
from : return '<div class="rotor-tab">'.$node->title .'</div>';
to : return '<div class="rotor-tab">'.views_embed_view('name_of_your_view', 'default',$node->nid) .'</div>';

This is a dirty trick, I usually don't hack modules but in my case it saved me a lot of time!
Hope this can help someone.